yihui/knitr — Issue #28: pdfcrop
Author: DCCKC
Created: 2011-12-02 16:46:27+00:00
State: open

This looks absolutely marvellous. The issues you have tried to overcome ring true with my experience.

One feature I would like to see is a way for automatically cropping pdfs using the pdfcrop tool that comes with latex distributions. I have a bash script that does this and it results in much neater reports and gets rid of a lot of unnecessary white space. This is especially useful in something like sweave because you generally don't always make the plots interactively and have a feel for the right dimension - and this can results in extra white space.

Anyway - I shall follow progress with this project with interest.

Great work!

David